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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After several years of rebuilding, the Quakers from Penn have arrived in a big way. The Crimson will be lucky to stay in the game Saturday...
Jutting out of the clutter of Hamburg's docks is a giant rooftop sign that pinpoints the location of the big, busy Schliekerwerft. The yard is named after its owner, tough Willy Schlieker, who operates a worldwide complex of 15 shipyards, steel mills and trading companies with a yearly gross of $150 million. At 45, Moneymaker Schlieker is the youngest of postwar Germany's Wirtschaftswunder-knaben (economic wonderboys...
...Schlieker does not even bother to take down tents and grandstands used for launching ceremonies. The 300,000-sq.-ft. yard has the biggest (capacity: 100,000 tons) drydock in Europe, an optical tracing device that projects cutting patterns on steel plates. Overseeing all is an electronic brain named "Big Brother" that tells Schlieker which machines have not worked at full capacity and why. From keel to launching, Willy can build a 20,000-ton vessel in three months. This year 170,000 tons will slide down his ways...
Born. To Slapstick Comic Jerry Lewis, 33, cinemaniac (Don't Give Up the Ship), toastmaster and song gargler (Big Songs for Little People), and Patti Lewis, 35: a fifth son, fifth child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anthony Joseph. Weight...
...crack shot, Ruark has given up big-game hunting, explains: "I've just lost the taste for seeing things die." He still rambles off on safaris, photographing the big game and potting birds for dinner. (His barstool story is that his white hunter imitates a lovelorn female rhino, and when a nearsighted male rumbles toward the sound, Ruark hangs his hat on the beast's horn and the hunter slaps a Ritz Hotel sticker on its behind.) Ruark will spend the next few months "doing all of Africa" for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, because "I have a hunch...